Maybe I am more accustomed to weekly posting. I haven't been a good daily poster.
Oh well! On we go.
Day 14: I do get annoyed with pens often. I've said it before but I need a pen that'll just write without requiring me to be at a certain angle or putting extra pressure to get the ink flowing. Things should just work!
Of course this is a 'Future boy' problem. If I was in any previous time I would be complaining about having to constantly sharpen a pencil or finding a perfect feather to keep inked.
Having a preference for a writing tool doesn't seem silly to me though. People have preferences for other tools such as weapons! I bring this up due to the quote "The Pen is mightier than the sword."
Might be a stretch there but I thought it would be cool to add!
- Day 15
I sometimes troll myself by opening the book backwards upside down and begin writing in it. It's not really something I do in regular or big sized books but with little notebooks or pocket books I definitely am more active in confusion to the unaware reader.
Smaller writing books are designed for travel and anything could happen in travel! The smaller 'journals' could be misplaced, used by somebody else, 'accidentally' acquired, or thrown away.
It may not contain sensitive information but I want the reader to work for it! Of course a little notebook/pocketbook is not under a lock or key but wasting those few seconds for them to figure out the correct orientation is a troll maneuver.
Read it and weep!
- Day 16
I can type out a complex word no problem! My fingers and the keyboard know which key comes next and it's all set to type. Misspelled words in a 'Proper Debate' on the internet will not do and just gives the opponent more ammunition to discredit the argueme- I mean the subject of debate...
Writing out a complex word though is an entirely different beast! I now have to actually think about which letter comes next, make sure each letter is able to be discerned, and allow enough room for each part of the word.
Again, 'Future boy' problems. I have nobody to blame but myself though. Thankfully the whole process has become as second nature as typing but those beginning entries when I started a few years ago are rife with little (sp) marks on longer words.
My brain shouldn't have had that much trouble at the beginning of my journaling life, but then again I have a proper excuse!
- Day 17
I recently learned that 'Recaptcha', those anti-bot boxes with all the weirdly colored letters and numbers to confirm the online accessor is a human, are actually used to help scanning bots discern words in scanned books being added to a digital repository/library.
This goes back to handwriting and reading others journals/old note books. It probably doesn't matter in the long run but if my journals are being scanned then maybe I should make it as complex as possible! Entries that are coded requiring a matrix/(de)cipher, perhaps I adopt modern hieroglyphics... or just my version of cursive!
I don't know but it will be interesting to see how my journaling evolves and adapts as I continue to troll myself and possibly the scanning machines with my writing styles!
- Day 18
I am close to completely filling up a journal. Does that mean I want another one immediately? I don't think so. I don't want to be obligated to fill something but I also understand that if I don't participate with it then I am missing out on recording moments, emotions, and events that are of interest.
I could order ahead but I don't want to be rushing to open up that new journal. I am an 'Order of events' type of person. Once something is finished then I can move on to the next thing but if that second subject pops up early then I rush to complete the first objective and possibly mess it up.
A journal, I am discovering with each one I finish, is a piece of me. A moment of time recorded on paper and that can't be rushed.
An obvious serious view on journaling but I am often glad I have the opportunity to save that piece. The other pieces I am like 'Wow, how embarrassing!'
Goof!
- Day 19
I don't really have a preference on page styling. Lined, dotted, completely blank, whatever other types there are, I just write out whatever I think that journals purpose is.
I mean obviously from my journal showcase, I felt like some journals leaned towards a specific purpose because of their page stylings but I have no clue! If it makes sense to me then that should be the final say.
I do sometimes mess around with my drafting tools on a completely blank journal though and I think that blankness just allows me to be more creative as opposed to the other stylings.
Of course if I try to write in a blank styling page my words start sloping up or down the further I go across the page. The page looks like my words are slowly being sucked or pushed by a gravity center.
I suppose my order of preference on stylings is Dotted>blank>lined>other. Don't know if that matters but there it is!
- Day 20
Writing on a subject for a day in a month is becoming pretty difficult for me1 I've explored and spoken about so much regarding my experience as an (self proclaimed/titled) intermediate journaler.
I never thought I would be a journaling type. My family knew I was but I just never saw it. Pandemic happened though and I think that was when it kicked off. disregarding those beginning entries of 'cabin fever' and 'They have taken the bridge. We cannot get out' I would just log the things I did around the place I was staying during quarantine and then slowly from there my thoughts and then progressed to ideas and forming (barely) legible handwriting.
I recall somebody saying 'While in quarantine, If you never developed a hobby you were interested in or completed that project you had no time for then you never wanted to do it.' or something along those lines. Well I got into journaling! Just like literally everybody else but me figured!
- Day 21
Going to future proof my tomorrow with this entry. I talked about virtual/digital journals in the NaJoPoMo challenge a few years ago but that was just a lingering interest on the space. Today I can safely say without doubt that I will never participate with a digital journal.
The whole premise seems sketchy (ha) and I cant trust a company/device with sensitive information like that. Especially with companies allowing their users data to be scanned for a generative learning model. This entry might be coming out of leftfield entirely but I want my 'personal library' to stay as 'personal' as I can have it.
The tools do look pretty cool though but that's how 'they' get 'ya!
I quote the villain from the Kingsmen: Secret Service action film (again): 'Nobody can hack this sh!t' while writing down a critical list on a piece of paper.
Funny to think about and funnier to realize.
LOL. That is totally why I do NOT lean towards blank journals.